When CeCe Peniston belts the first triumphant note of “Finally” at this year’s Roots Picnic, she won’t just be reviving a hit — she’ll be reminding the crowd of the powerful legacy of Black women in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. From Solange Knowles to Josephine Baker, Black women have been breaking the mold in the field of dance for generations. Over the ...

Step into almost any day party, house party, or nightclub and you’re sure to hear dance music made by Black women and femmes. Amapiano, house, Jersey club, and jungle: the sounds that make up a rich ...

Africa’s most celebrated dancer and choreographer, Germaine Acogny, turns 80 on 28 May. I have had the privilege of meeting the Senegalese artist, learning from her, and interviewing her as part of my ...

Modern Black femme artists are reveling in the spoils of dance music reentering the mainstream, not that it hasn’t been here all along. Staking claim to 1990s house music were vocalists Caron Wheeler, ...

Click to open image viewer. John Biggers was one of the first African American artists to travel to Africa to study different cultural traditions and practices. He went to the continent in 1957, where ...

Toluwani Bademosi, 6, holds up a high-five gesture and waits for a computer program to recognize the pose and register a “match” during an educational workshop at Drexel University, Saturday, Nov. 15, ...